Thursday, August 30, 2007

Ok, so I know we went on our trip in July, but I didn't have a blog back then, and I want to post about our trip....so here goes!!!

We went to Campland at the Bay in San Diego for 6 wonderful days! The weather was perfect and the campground was great. I would pick this type of vacation (with kids) over staying in a hotel anyday! Of course my first choice is a Beach House, but that is not always in the budget.Here is a view of our camp site from what we called, the Skate Park because even thought it said "no skateboarding" all over the place, that is where every teenage boy skateboarded! Mckenna, Ashlyn, Bailey and Carson thought it was their duty to tell ( I mean YELL at) the skateboarders that they were not suppose skateboard there.It was very convenient being next to the fire pit/amphitheater/skate park, because the kids would ride their bikes around the circle and play there for hours!As soon as we were done setting up camp, we walked to the Bay. Halle wanted to walk straight into the water, she had absolutely no fear. We learned very quickly that we could not her little hand go!

crazy hair day!Notice the skateboards in the background and the 'No Skateboarding" painted on the cement? Carson tried to hang out with these big boys, since all he had was girls to play with on the trip.

Day at the beach!cute, sandy feet~these belong to (left to right) Ashlyn, Mckenna,& Bailey. Notice how Mckenna's feet have the least amount of sand on them? I bet you are thinking that is because she is such a good kid and tries really hard to stay clean.Nope, she had just walked straight across all our blankets and towels, while the other 2 went around! That's my Mckenna *sigh* :)Day 2 at the beach!My cute DH and Halle.Halle started out sitting up, and slowly inched her way onto her tummy, where she laid and buried her arms in the sand, and of course tried to eat the shells! She really loves to become one with the sand!

Waiting for our breakfast outside of Kono's! My Aunt and Uncle introduced us to this yummy little restaurant! They have the best potato/hash brown things! Mckenna has developed a fear of heights! The cracks on the boardwalk and the steps down to the beach, were very scary to her. She crawled like this, very slowly, all the way across the landing to the steps and all the way down to the sand. When we went out on the pier she was literally shaking with fear! I feel so bad for her...I admit.... I did laugh more than I should have! I had a huge fear of heights when I was younger, and I am still afraid of the Ferris Wheel, although I will tackle any Roller Coaster!

We also had breakfast with Shamu and spent the day at Sea World. I will do a Sea World post tomorrow!

Friday, August 24, 2007

I just remembered that I wanted to share a conversation that I had with Mckenna and Carson today. It all started with Carson being very cuddly and clingy today, I started to think about when he grows up and he is no longer my 'little boy'. It went like this....

Me: So Carson, are you going to get married someday?Carson: uh-huh, I yamMe: Are you going to have any kidsCarson: me yamMe: are you going to get a house of your ownCarson: (as he hugged me) I want to yive here with you.Me: Are your kids going to live here too?Carson: uh-huh!Me: You know, you will have to get your own house when you get married and have kids.Carson: (making the saddest face ever, about to cry, hugging me more) No...I want to yive with youMckenna: (after listening to Carson and I, and being the logical one that she is) I will get my own house Mom. I can buy Rayleans (our neighbor) when she sells it, then I can live next door. Carson (she says) you can buy the other neighbors house, and live on the other side of Mom(but he was not having any of it, now he is even more sad)Mckenna again: I am going to have 8 boys and 8 girls.Me: Wow! Thats a lot of kids.Mckenna: I know (she laughs) it would be crazy (emphasis on crazy)...there would be babies crying all over the place (as she waves her hand around the room) Then she tried to demonstrate how to hold that many crying babiesMe: Laughing and thinking...she deserves 16 babies!!!Mckenna: Actually I will probably just have 2 boys and 2 girls. I will either have a boy or girl first (ya think, me laughing again)Moral of the story....It is way to early to even think about my kids leaving 'the nest'! And I still have many years to be the 'favorite girl' in my little boys life! .

We are starting our family blog! I am so excited to have a way to record and share our family happenings with our family and friends. I finally made the decision to start blogging when I saw some info about getting your blog made into a book (Thanks Kylie, I saw it on your blog!), I thought this is perfect....now I can get our blog printed every 6 mo. or year and not feel so guilty about never getting around to my scrapbooking.

I guess I will start with our most recent family picture...

Funny thing is, we aren't even Simpsons fans, Kyle just found the site and thought it was pretty funny to "Simpsonize" us.

My next few posts will probably be from past events....Our trip to San Diego's Campland at the Bay, Mckennas first day of school and a few other memorable experiences. Hopefully I can restrain myself from not posting every picture we took!

That's all for tonight. I gotta go help Kyle, he is once again in the 'project mode' and has starting digging the holes for our future Tree House/Fort, huge thing! I will post pics as the project progresses. Wish me luck to make it through one more of his 'projects' AAhhhh!

On a side note, Kyle just found a cute baby frog. Carson and Halle sure do have high pitched squeals! Ouch, my ears!

Kids say the darndest things

6/18/09 Claire is starting to say little words. She told the waitress 'thank you' (more like day du) after I did. She also was saying her own version of 'again' when Kyle was throwing her in the air at the beach and she can say 'nana' for banana.

6/16/09 We took the kids to see the Seals at La Jolla and Carson asked if we were in the 'Ice Age' when we were down on the veiwing platform.

6/18/09 Halle came in crying one day while we were in San Diego because I had not put her "sun scream" on her. She always calls it sun scream, so cute!

04/2009 We were in the car the other day and Carson said 'mommy, you are not obeying the commandments'. You might wonder why he would accuse me of this? I was being mean by not taking him to McDonalds.

01/2008 I know that I shouldn't think this is cute, because it really isnt' but when you hear a 22 month old yell "Stupid Head Carson" it is kinda funny. She actually has started saying 'stupid head {insert inteneded's name here} quite a bit, so it is becoming not so cute. Grandma especially does not like being called 'Stupid Head Grandma"! AAAHHH!! What do I do?

9/06/07 Mckenna was mad at Carson today and told him "you are making me lose my "Temperature"!

Lately Carson has been saying "Are you thinking what I am thinking, Mom"? Ummm. I don't know Carson, what are you thinking? Then he tells me that he is thinking about a T-Rex or some other dinosaur, and wonders if they can eat a moth or a alligator, or something like that. Ummm. No Carson, that is not what I was thinking. Then I tell him what I was thinking and then he will tell me that is NOT what he was thinking, He does this several times a day, and always has some random thought about little boy things that I just don't think of. Every once in a while though he will throw in that he was thinking about how much he loves me :)